Orange County Indexed
Child or servant bound: James McDade, Jno Shy, Tho Watts
November 1789 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
After Jno Shy surrendered his apprenticeship claim, the court released him and bound orphan James McDade to Tho Watts to learn shoemaking.
- Kind of business
- Child or servant bound
- Court
- November 1789 term
- People
- James McDade (child bound; orphan child)
- Jno Shy (master)
- Tho Watts (master)
- The court’s words
- “art and mistery of a Shoemaker”
- Elsewhere in the minutes
- OCPQS 4/202: May 1789 term →
Names and places are given as the source writes them. This record has not been checked against the original minute book.
Where to find it
- Minute book 4, page 247
- Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the November 1789 term
- Original: State Archives of North Carolina, Orange County court minutes (CR.073.301).
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 30002, “County Court Minutes, 1777–1795” (State Archives film).
